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Search : As of 1860, there were no American cities with a population that exceeded

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Whitman in the German-Speaking Countries

  • Creator(s): Walter Grünzweig
Text:

While some critics did admit that they were puzzled about the poems that looked as though they were copied

were unable to cope with these challenges.

This is the piece "Once I Passed through a Populous City," first published in 1860.

The Whitmans were farmers or working men.

/ What cities the light and warmth penetrates I penetrate those cities myself,/ All islands to which

Annotations Text:

Countries," by Walter Grünzweig, first appeared in Gay Wilson Allen, ed., Walt Whitman and the World (Iowa City

"Leaving it to you to prove and define": "Poets to Come" and Whitman's German Translators

  • Creator(s): Walter Grünzweig | Vanessa Steinroetter
Text:

The fact that most of Whitman's German translators were attracted to the poem, given their different

to the world of poetry—were interpreted by German translators as international poets to come.

The notion that these future poets were, in Whitman's words, "native" and "continental" did not have

As a lyrical version of American democracy, it would arouse German readers and teach them the democratic

Whereas American readers may well have identified the term with the American continent, this meaning

Walter Delaplaine Scull to Walt Whitman, 14 October 1889

  • Date: October 14, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walter Delaplaine Scull
Annotations Text:

Only 300 copies were printed, and Whitman signed the title page of each one.

Walt Whitman Home Again

  • Date: 7 January 1880
  • Creator(s): Anonymous | Walt Whitman?
Text:

He is in love with Denver City, and speaks admiringly of Missouri and Indiana.

John M. Binckley to Joseph S. Wilson, 10 June 1868

  • Date: June 10, 1868
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman>
Text:

the honor to enclose herewith a number of papers relating to a part of the town site of Deer Lodge City

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 16 May [1887]

  • Date: May 16, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Walt Whitman>
Annotations Text:

Bohan, Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850–1920 (University Park: Pennsylvania State University

Walt Whitman to Karl Knortz, 14 June 1887

  • Date: June 14, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Walt Whitman>
Annotations Text:

Karl Knortz | 540 East 155th Street | New York City.

Instructions for 1855 Leaves of Grass Variorum

  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman Archive
Text:

The twelve poems of the 1855 edition did not have unique titles; the first six were headed "Leaves of

Gems from Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Elizabeth Porter Gould | Walt Whitman and Elizabeth Porter Gould
Text:

for city and land for land.

greatest city in the whole world.

what joys were thine!

It pleased him very much, yet the tears were in his eyes. He asked me if I enjoyed religion.

The rest were carried ashore and laid down in one place or another."

Memoranda During the War

  • Date: 1875–1876
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Some of the men were dying.

Many wounded were with us on the cars and boat. The cars were just common platform ones.

His parents were living, but were very old. There were four sons, and all had enlisted.

Many were entire strangers.

Quite all Americans. (The Americans are the handsomest race that ever trod the earth.)

Complete Prose Works

  • Date: 1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Books were scarce.

His parents were living, but were very old. There were four sons, and all had enlisted.

New York City.

If a man were ask'd, for instance, the distinctive points contrasting modern European and American political

The old men, I remember as a boy, were always talking of American independence.

Annotations Text:

digital, flip-book images of the original (excepting pages 72-125, 271-290, 299, 300, and 317-346, which were

Drum-Taps and Sequel to Drum-Taps

  • Date: 1865; 1865–1866
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Old matron of the city! this proud, friendly, turbulent city!

CITY OF SHIPS. CITY of ships! (O the black ships! O the fierce ships!

City of the world!

City of wharves and stores! city of tall façades of mar- ble marble and iron!

what were God?)

Drum-Taps (1865)

  • Date: 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Old matron of the city! this proud, friendly, turbulent city!

CITY OF SHIPS. CITY of ships! (O the black ships! O the fierce ships!

City of the world!

City of wharves and stores! city of tall façades of mar- ble marble and iron!

Proud and passionate city! mettlesome, mad, extrava- gant extravagant Spring up, O city!

Folhas de Relva

  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

legalizadas, o meretrício organizado em comércio e as injustiças sociais aceitas pela maioria complacente. 1860

Lystia travy

  • Date: 1969
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

що ті роздаєш, може, тобі повернеться так само, як вертають доби року, Й зможе бути таким, як вони. 1860

обридне чекання, Він повернеться скоро, його віщуни вже ідуть. 1850 ПРЕЗИДЕНТОВІ* Поезію написано 1860

Annotations Text:

.; Поезію написано 1860 р., коли президентом США був Дж.

Poeti che verrete!

  • Date: 2011
  • Creator(s): Marina Camboni | Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Marina Camboni's translation of the poem that would later become "Poets to Come," as it appears in the 1860

Poems by Walt Whitman [1868]

  • Date: 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

They were purified by death—they were taught and exalted.

Old matron of the city! this proud, friendly, turbulent city!

City of wharves and stores! city of tall façades of marble and iron! Proud and passionate city!

mettlesome, mad, extravagant city! Spring up, O city!

I loved well those cities; I loved well the stately and rapid river; The men and women I saw were all

Annotations Text:

.; ∗ This clause is obviously imperfect in some respect: it is here reproduced verbatim from the American

and in his poems after the death of the body, still a friend and brother to all present and future American

—JOHN BURROUGHS.; ∗These were the three Presidentships of Polk; of Taylor, succeeded by Filmore; and

Leaves of Grass. The Poems of Walt Whitman [Selected]

  • Date: 1886
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

cities, and fit to have for his background and accessories their streaming populations and ample and

These and all else were to me the same as they are to you, I loved well those cities, loved well the

What does it mean to American persons, progresses, cities? Chicago, Kanada, Arkansas?

A N EWER garden of creation, no primal solitude, Dense, joyous, modern, populous millions, cities and

city of spires and masts! City nested in bays! my city!

J. Hubley Ashton to Darius H. Starbuck, 3 October 1866

  • Date: October 3, 1866
  • Creator(s): J. Hubley Ashton | Walt Whitman
Text:

It is particularly stated that a number of soldiers who were under the command of W. W.

Matthew F. Pleasants to Jacob P. Leese, 10 October 1866

  • Date: October 10, 1866
  • Creator(s): Matthew F. Pleasants | Walt Whitman
Text:

Metropolitan Hotel New York City.

J. Hubley Ashton to Watterson & Crawford, 24 October 1866

  • Date: October 24, 1866
  • Creator(s): J. Hubley Ashton | Walt Whitman
Text:

Circuit Court, sitting in Louisiana, a number of adjudications were had upon libels in rem against steamboats

documents to show that in nine other cases, involving the same material issues, decrees of restitution were

Matthew F. Pleasants to Henry Welton, 22 October 1866

  • Date: October 22, 1866
  • Creator(s): Matthew F. Pleasants> | Walt Whitman
Text:

acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 18th inst., & to say in reply, that full instructions were

J. Hubley Ashton to D. B. Eaton, 29 October 1866

  • Date: October 29, 1866
  • Creator(s): J. Hubley Ashton | Walt Whitman
Text:

City. Sir: I enclose a copy of a letter relative to the steamer "Pearl."

Henry Stanbery to Jacob P. Leese, 30 October 1866

  • Date: October 30, 1866
  • Creator(s): Henry Stanbery | Walt Whitman
Text:

Marshal for California, to which you were recently appointed by the President.

J. Hubley Ashton to Samuel G. Courtney, 9 January 1867

  • Date: January 9, 1867
  • Creator(s): J. Hubley Ashton | Walt Whitman
Text:

Attorney New York City. Send at once briefs and opinions in Hadden vs. Barney. J.

Matthew F. Pleasants to Samuel G. Courtney, 10 January 1867

  • Date: January 10, 1867
  • Creator(s): Matthew F. Pleasants | Walt Whitman
Text:

Attorney, New York City.

Matthew F. Pleasants to Charles H. Hatch, 14 January 1867

  • Date: January 14, 1867
  • Creator(s): Matthew F. Pleasants | Walt Whitman
Text:

No. 26 Exchange Place, New York City.

Henry Stanbery to Andrew Johnson, 21 January 1867

  • Date: January 21, 1867
  • Creator(s): Henry Stanbery | Walt Whitman
Text:

appellate court, on certiorari, the prosecution below was sustained, and that the whole proceedings were

It will be observed that this letter purports that the facts of Fincher's case were represented to the

Matthew F. Pleasants to Samuel G. Courtney, 9 February 1867

  • Date: February 9, 1867
  • Creator(s): Matthew F. Pleasants | Walt Whitman
Text:

Attorney New York City.

that he should be one entirely familiar with matters of real property law & conveyancing in New York City

Henry Stanbery to Edward Dodd, 10 June 1867

  • Date: June 10, 1867
  • Creator(s): Henry Stanbery | Walt Whitman
Text:

Go, or send deputy to Elmira for witnesses—William Roberts—American Hotel, Elmira, has subpoenas—Answer

Henry Stanbery to Darius H. Starbuck, 10 June 1867

  • Date: June 10, 1867
  • Creator(s): Henry Stanbery | Walt Whitman
Text:

February, 1865, (13 Stat. 432,) for the recovery of balances due before the war from the parties, who were

John M. Binckley to William Price, 21 June 1867

  • Date: June 21, 1867
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
Text:

As those services were directed at the request of the Secretary of War, your account should be transmitted

John M. Binckley to Ulysses S. Grant, William H. Seward, Gideon Welles, Hugh McCulloch, Orville Hickman Browning, A. W. Randall, 17 August 1867

  • Date: August 17, 1867
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
Text:

15th inst. purporting to be a communication from a correspondent of that paper, writing from this city

recited in this publication, in the archives of the Attorney General's Office, except those which were

F. U. Stitt to Samuel G. Courtney, 23 October 1867

  • Date: October 23, 1867
  • Creator(s): F. U. Stitt | Walt Whitman
Text:

Attorney, New York City.

Henry Stanbery to William Dorsheimer, 23 October 1867

  • Date: October 23, 1867
  • Creator(s): Henry Stanbery | Walt Whitman
Text:

Y., were, on being delivered to the agents of the Fenian organization, transported to Potsdam Junction

F. U. Stitt to S. L. M. Barlow, 31 October 1867

  • Date: October 31, 1867
  • Creator(s): F. U. Stitt | Walt Whitman
Text:

New York City.

Henry Stanbery to Samuel G. Courtney, 1 November 1867

  • Date: November 1, 1867
  • Creator(s): Henry Stanbery | Walt Whitman
Text:

Dana, of New York City, late Assistant Secretary of War, that suit has been instituted against him by

John M. Binckley to Leander Holmes, 4 November 1867

  • Date: November 4, 1867
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
Text:

If such Territory were un organized, the case would not be doubtful.

J., in American Ins. Co. vs. Canter , 1 Peters, 542.

Henry Stanbery to Hugh McCulloch, 5 November 1867

  • Date: November 5, 1867
  • Creator(s): Henry Stanbery | Walt Whitman
Text:

Lamar's papers, it appears that they were originally brought to the seat of government in charge of the

War Department, from which they were transferred to the Treasury Department, and upon a reference recently

Henry Stanbery to Hugh McCulloch, 5 November 1867

  • Date: November 5, 1867
  • Creator(s): Henry Stanbery | Walt Whitman
Text:

Lamar's papers, it appears that they were originally brought to the seat of Government in charge of the

War Department, from which they were transferred to the Treasury Department, and upon a reference recently

John M. Binckley to L. H. Chandler, 7 November 1867

  • Date: November 7, 1867
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
Text:

You will observe that in the opinion of the local quartermaster, the appraising Commissioners were irregularly

Henry Stanbery to William M. Evarts, 9 November 1867

  • Date: November 9, 1867
  • Creator(s): Henry Stanbery | Walt Whitman
Text:

Counsellor at Law, New York City. Mr.

F. U. Stitt to William G. Dickson, 11 November 1867

  • Date: November 11, 1867
  • Creator(s): F. U. Stitt | Walt Whitman
Text:

It was immediately corrected, and duplicate originals were furnished to the Hon.

Matthew F. Pleasants to Samuel G. Courtney, 20 November 1867

  • Date: November 20, 1867
  • Creator(s): Matthew F. Pleasants | Walt Whitman
Text:

District Attorney, New York City.

John M. Binckley to D. J. Baldwin, 21 November 1867

  • Date: November 21, 1867
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
Text:

Attorney General has received your report of the 12th inst. informing him that in January 1866, sundry Americans

property of the inhabitants of Bagdad, on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, and that indictments were

—You add that "the dignity of the American name requires that something be done to bring the arch offenders

Henry Stanbery to S. B. Elkins, 23 November 1867

  • Date: November 23, 1867
  • Creator(s): Henry Stanbery | Walt Whitman
Text:

The suits were actions of debt upon statute, in conformity to Section 27 of said Act of Congress.

Some of these suits were founded upon alleged unlawful intercourse with the Camanches; others, unlawful

Both demurrers were sustained by the court.

Henry Stanbery to Benjamin F. Tracy, 26 November 1867

  • Date: November 26, 1867
  • Creator(s): Henry Stanbery | Walt Whitman
Text:

If that were so, you ask me whether it would protect him from punishment;— and you further ask to be

Henry Stanbery to William Dorsheimer, 26 November 1867

  • Date: November 26, 1867
  • Creator(s): Henry Stanbery | Walt Whitman
Text:

hereby authorize you to take the same proceedings as to these arms, (if shown to be Fenian arms,) which were

John M. Binckley to Ulysses S. Grant, 5 December 1867

  • Date: December 5, 1867
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
Text:

the honor to return herewith all the papers relating to the public property at Harper's Ferry, which were

Henry Stanbery to E. C. Carrington, 29 November 1867

  • Date: November 29, 1867
  • Creator(s): Henry Stanbery | Walt Whitman
Text:

Gilson, then Secretary of that Territory, with the designated depository of the United States at Oregon City

one of Gilson's sureties,) dated at Paris, France, September 1, 1867, that Gilson was then in that city

"sporting his American buggy, fast horse," etc. which letter also contains an offer on the part of the

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